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<h1>Providing interactivity to users: Selectors</h1>
<p>Selectors provide dashboards with interactivity, allowing each user 
 to change how he sees the data. A selector can change panels, the focus 
 of a Grid/Graph, or dynamic text fields (a text field that is a reference 
 to an object on a report) in a panel stack.</p>
<p>Selectors allow a user to:</p>
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<li class=p><p>Flip through the panels in a panel stack. A panel stack 
 is a collection of panels, which allow the user to see different predefined 
 views of data in the same document, as shown in the following image:</p></li>
</ul>
<p class="whs2"><img src="images/panelstack_withselectorandGG.gif" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="262px" height="142px" border="0" class="img_whs3"></p>
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<li class=p><p>Display different metrics or different elements of attributes, 
 custom groups, or consolidations in a Grid/Graph, as shown in the following 
 image:</p></li>
</ul>
<p class="whs2"><img src="images/selector_control_gridgraph.gif" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="526px" height="212px" border="0" class="img_whs4"></p>
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<li class=p><p>Display different elements of attributes, custom groups, 
 or consolidations in a panel stack using dynamic text fields. A dynamic 
 text field is a text field populated by the dataset; it is essentially 
 a reference to an object on a report, as shown in the following image:</p></li>
</ul>
<p class="whs2"><img src="images/selector_dynamictext2.gif" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="222px" height="90px" border="0" class="img_whs5"></p>
<p>Examples of each scenario above, with images, are in the <span style="font-style: italic;"><I>MicroStrategy 
 Report Services Document Creation Guide</I></span>.</p>
<p>The following images shows an example of a Drop-down selector (on the 
 left) and a Radio Button selector (on the right) where attribute elements 
 (in this case, elements from the Book attribute) are displayed:</p>
<p class="whs6"><img src="images/selector_control_dropdown.gif" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="255px" height="168px" border="0" class="img_whs7"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span 
 style="margin-left: 40px;"><img src="images/selector_control_radio.gif" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="138px" height="187px" border="0" class="img_whs8"></span></p>
<p class="whs9">Related topics</p>
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<li class=p><p class="whs10">
<a HREF="Defining_a_selector.htm">Defining 
 a selector</a></p></li>
	
<li class=p><p class="whs10">
<a HREF="Insert_a_selector.htm">Inserting 
 a selector into a document</a></p></li>
	
<li class=p><p class="whs10">
<a HREF="Modify_properties_for_selector.htm">Modifying 
 properties of a selector</a></p></li>
	
<li class=p><p class="whs10">
<a HREF="Formatting_selectors.htm">Formatting 
 selectors</a></p></li>
</ul>
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